Disney needs to make a bronze statue of Bobby as a child and place it smack dab in the entrance to his theme parks. Bobby helped put his corporation on the map! RIP, Bobby…Child star and legend.
It's really sad even today in the 21st century this kid doesn't get the credit he deserves, I mean he is literally the facial basis for Peter pan which is still a cinematic sensation over 70 years on! It's not fair at all, of coarse what in the film industry is? His own quote about the silver platter is so true
Paul Peterson founded a Minor Consideration, an organization that works to help child actors. This, after the death of his friend Rusty Hamer, also a child actor whose adult life went horribly, tragically wrong.
Pisses me off how some others have done so little on Disney and are legends but he was the first kid on Disney and had made a mark for classic films that are iconic even now like So Dear to My Heart and Peter Pan
As a lifelong fan of Bobby's work with Disney, it's only when I learned more about his personal life throughout the years, the more I discovered, the sadder I became. I own the original press photo seen at 31:50, taken at one of his court hearings, and I've seen his collage work as well as photos of him during his days as a beatnik. As others have said, he ultimately made the decisions that led to his demise, but like a few stars I have read about, Bobby Driscoll is definitely one that really never stood a chance. Lost boy indeed.
Wow, how ignorant… The former slaves that remain on the property were called sharecroppers and it was barely a step above slavery, so yeah, I would say it is a poor depiction
The letter to Truman Capote was really interesting. He had just published In Cold Blood to much acclaim. Bet Bobby had some stories to tell. Had he lived another decade he could have done a great tell-all: Disney Dearest.
I just have limited sympathy for these people that are able bodied and they’re healthy and somewhat. He didn’t make it as an actor. There’s a lot of other things you could do go to college get any type of career be an acting coach do anything but we’re supposed to feel bad for these people because boo-hoo. I’m not getting acting roles anymore. There’s more life than being an actor.
His parents leeched off his acting career and allowed him to fall into drugs in Hollywood and didn’t help him. They left him to live as a hobo on a streets than properly help his addiction.
Anyone seen the ID documentary show call Quiet on Set: Dark Side of kids TV Similiar how Nickelodeon ruined the many kids star who were famous and screwed off by the company, same happen to Disney doing and Bobby Driscoll I believe Quiet on Set should do documentary about Disney past and current, includes Bobby Driscoll also..
There are some interviews with the actors and workers on disney at the time noticing some disney execs (not walt) getting way too close to Bobby, and you know folks trust and belief is different back then, it must be noticeably weird to make some folks suspicious
It time disney honor bobby driscoll for all he did for them and make a statue of him at disney land ! A shining star people will never forget ! He will always be peter pan !
So sickening what happened to this young man. His whole life was destroyed. One thing about this documentary...why is it that folks would be interviewed with a beeping fire alarm/CO2 alarm ??? For the love of all things holy, please change the batteries or get it serviced....I would be so embarrassed being interviewed with that annoying beeping, makes you look lazy
Great documentary and a tragic tale well told. People forget that many, many people tried to save Bobby, but their offers could never entice him from the drugs that controlled him. Walt Disney was an employer and a creative who brought out the best in Bobby. He was not a charity. We have no idea if he tried to help Bobby before he was fired or if he "abused" him as a child, but it won't stop the mob from always believing the very worst.
This was all asshole Disney's fault. Disney was a drug addict child abusing satanist. When he was through with Bobby, he just threw him away like garbage.
Where can I find interviews with him directly? Including articles where he’s interviewed. Like where did the quote “I was carried out on a silver platter and then dumped in the trash” come from?
